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HOW IS A STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABILITY
OF COASTAL SLUMS AREA IN REMBANG
CITY, REMBANG DISTRICT?
By : Sunarti
Urban Development Laboratory Researcher Departement of City and Regional Planning Engineering Faculty, Diponegoro University Semarang
E-mail : n4rti08@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Population growth is very fast, especially lead to control of the illegal land by low-income communities. With limited land for a residence in the city made the state-owned land that is not used for public use area of settlement. Rembang subdistrict capital is located in the seaside city with the linier development along the beach. This has caused people choose where to live in the area because it is a strategic location and close to the main livelihood as fishermen. Settlement area is finally growing in conservation areas to the coastal area and into slums. The emergence of the legal settlement slums and illegal (squatters) because of the absence of regulation as a
control in the provision of housing and services.
Goal in this article is to formulate strategies for the sustainability of the area's settlements in the coastal area of Rembang District. Benefit strategy formulation is expected to be input for the government to prepare development plans and policies related to the efforts of the city address
the problem area slums settlements (slums and squatters).
Strategy for sustainability of the settlement area in a coastal site is on Upgrading strategy with community empowering approach. Priority lies in the upgrading of tenure include legitimacy, legalization and formalization of the process of integration to the market and the formal aspects
of the de jure. Handling strategy to strengthen the economic activity for people who have a home business providing industry assistance loans for business capital of Rembang District. To
support the sustainability of the settlements in the coastal Rembang city, people are encouraged in order to have the ability to utilize the resources optimally and fully involved in the
mechanism of production, economic, social and the ecology. Recommendations for Rembang government as a policy can be more selective in terms of building permits the area to support
the sustainability of coastal settlements in a safe and reasonable habitation.
Keywords: strategy, slums settlement, coastal areas, sustainability
INTRODUCE
Rapid growth of population, especially for low-income people lead to control of land for housing illegally. Appearance the slum settlements and illegal (squatters) caused by the growing number of people faster than the government ability in setting up housing and services. Unbalance condition between growth and number of populated with development of a properness residents are increasing amount of slum residents.
Most of community choosing their residence location near with their workplace as a economic source. Likewise the community in coastal area, who work as a fisherman, they are live in a long of beach without pay attention to safety, comfortable, and worthiness of their residence. Disaster doesn’t be the main problem for them, because they feel that the economic necessity as a primer necessity and the culture social factors have been adhere for them.
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Rembang District is located in the 5 villages. Building density in Rembang that classified in slums as the following:Table1 : Netto and Building Densities Coastal Settlement Area in Rembang City
No. Villages Number of Population
Square (Ha)
Number of House
Settlement Square (Ha)
Netto Density (people/ Ha)
Building Density (unit/Ha)
1 Gegunung Wetan 1412 6,86 413 6,13 230 67
2 Gegunung Kulon 891 4,07 223 4,00 223 56
3 Tanjungsari 689 2,24 173 2,11 327 82
4 Pacar 604 7,24 401 7,20 84 56
5 Pandean 1958 175,00 531 19,58 100 27
Source: RP4D of Rembang District, 2008
Look at the building density, so take the problem formulation in this research is emergence of settlement in Rembang coastal area more dangerous for the inhabitant. Insecurity of Rembang government in monitoring and control of the building in coastal areas cause people with low income can build free houses in the area.
The purpose of writing this article is to formulate strategies for the sustainability of the area's settlements in the coastal area of Rembang District, so that the area is not damaged and people can live comfortably without any danger that threatens their lives. The field study focused on the settlement area which located in north of province road.
DEFINITION
According to the Directorate General of Cipta Karya Public Work Departement, Informal area (Slums and Squatters) is a area on a physics, economic, social cultures and social politics have degradation or some inherent problems, so ability of land can’t used optimally. Smith (1979: 24) in detail to provide the restrictions as follows:
a. Slums are legal and permanent housing, but the physical environment condition worsened because of the settlement less maintenance, age of building ripen, or because-divided into units for the home or yard of the small room.
b. Squatters are illegal housing in the illegal land (not recommended for housing area), uncontrolled, unorganized, the physics and building a very ugly, without served by infrastructure facilities and environment of the city.
Settlements are not always illegally, and illegal housing not always slum. Squatters were related with land owned status, it is resident which built over the land that not their authority (other people or state land). Characteristic of the slum and squatter areas are described as follows (Abrams,1964: 10-27):
• It is groups of rapidly huts, with high density, narrow trail for entrance, built from oil drums, from sheet irons, tin-cans, paint, and use the plywood board.
• Grow and develop organically with physics and building condition is very bad and doesn’t regularly, can’t fulfill technical and healthy requirement, facilities and infrastructure environment lacking or below standard.
• Environment informal settlements illegally occupy the land (not the settlement, not according to the government's plan), not controlled and often not as organized along the time.
• Generally, the population have low of social status, economic, and education.
• Identically with criminality, bitch, and full of hopeless people, no fixed work (often seasonal), and relatively low earnings in the informal sector
• Density of the Basic Building coefficients (KDB) is greater than that permitted (KDB almost 100%), the population density exceeds the resources to support the environment (1000 persons / ha).
• People still bring nature and behavior of rural life that involved family ties in closely.
